Browsing Archive: November, 2013

UPDATE 8.2016: Sadly, Bibliotastic is no longer operating - apparently the software supporting the site wasn't being updated and as it was all being done for free, the owners couldn't afford to update it. This is a shame because I liked the idea of the site, particularly its focus on getting readers to submit reviews.

Here’s
an email interview with James Crawshaw, one of the founders of bibliotastic, a
free ebooks platform based in the UK, which occupies a space somewhere ...

Posted by Paul Samael on Wednesday, November 13, 2013,
In :
Book reviews

This short book describes eight appearances of the medieval “Saint”
Christina the Astonishing (the unofficial patron saint of people affected by
mental illness) in the near and distant future.
The “real” Saint Christina is said to have risen from the dead during
the course of her funeral – and when I say “risen”, I mean literally soaring up
to the roof of the church where the ceremony was being held. According to Wikipedia, she flew up there
because she couldn...

3 is a collection of three long-ish, meaty short stories by
Moxie Mezcal. By “meaty” I mean that
they could almost qualify for the novella tag – because there is so much going
on in terms of plot and interesting ideas that by the time you’ve finished, you
are left with the kind of feeling more commonly associated with longer fiction.

The first story, “Home Movie,” is about a porn store DVD
which has been replaced with what appears to be a snuff movie – is it ...

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Paul Samael

Welcome to my blog, "Publishing Waste" which will either (a) chronicle my heroic efforts to self-publish my own fiction; or (b) demonstrate beyond a scintilla of doubt the utter futility of (a). And along the way, I will also be doing some reviews of other people's books and occasionally blogging about other stuff.